{"id":143,"date":"2018-02-19T01:49:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gosh.buzz\/?p=141"},"modified":"2018-09-28T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T04:31:21","slug":"bombay-to-mumbai-the-story-behind-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/bombay-to-mumbai-the-story-behind-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombay to Mumbai &#8211; The Story Behind Change!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bal Thackeray, the Founder Leader of &#8220;<strong><em>Shiv Sena&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(translation: &#8220;<strong><em>Army of Shivaji<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;) Political Party believed that &#8220;<em>Bombay<\/em>&#8221; was a corrupted English version of &#8220;<em>Mumbai<\/em>&#8221; and an unwanted legacy of British colonial rule. He wanted to change the city&#8217;s name to &#8220;Mumbai&#8221; to pay tribute to Hindu goddess &#8220;<em><strong>Mumbadevi<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; meaning &#8220;<em>mother<\/em>&#8221; in Marathi language to strengthen Marathi identity in the Maharashtra region. In 1995, when Shiv Sena won the elections in Maharashtra, his party anounced that the city&#8217;s name has been changed to &#8220;Mumbai&#8221; and now a resident of Mumbai is called &#8220;<em><strong>Mumbaikar<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mumbai#Etymology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/explainer\/2006\/07\/mumbai_what_about_bombay.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SLATE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/learning\/histcitizen\/trading\/bombay\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Library<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/asia\/india\/articles\/the-history-of-how-bombay-became-mumbai-in-1-minute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Culture Trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bal Thackeray, the Founder Leader of &#8220;Shiv Sena&#8221;\u00a0(translation: &#8220;Army of Shivaji&#8221;) Political Party believed that &#8220;Bombay&#8221; was a corrupted English version of &#8220;Mumbai&#8221; and an unwanted legacy of British colonial rule. He wanted to change the city&#8217;s name to &#8220;Mumbai&#8221; to pay tribute to Hindu goddess &#8220;Mumbadevi&#8221; meaning &#8220;mother&#8221; in Marathi language to strengthen Marathi identity in the Maharashtra region. In 1995, when Shiv Sena won the elections in Maharashtra, his party anounced that the city&#8217;s name has been changed to &#8220;Mumbai&#8221; and now a resident of Mumbai is called &#8220;Mumbaikar&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,31,6,4],"tags":[30,32,33,28],"thb-sponsors":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bombay-to-Mumbai-The-Story-Behind-Change-WinfiY-crunch.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9V90w-2j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}